Something different...

I played around with ink today for fun. This is my dracaena plant, in a wash of green and red inks.

Hubby wants me to show this next charcoal drawing... by Pablo Picasso's very distant cousin, Juan Picasso... (haha)

I think I said before, Hubby's taking a drawing class at school. He's never drawn anything before, but is taking the class to understand more about what I'm doing. I'm surprised at how well he is doing. The above drawing of a section of blanket is from 2am the other night when he had an epiphany of how this shading stuff works. The instructor hasn't been telling them much about HOW to draw, other than saying "draw what you see". Well, I guess that's like a teacher giving you a calculus problem and saying "here, solve this" when you don't have the slightest clue where to start. I suppose drawing is the same way to people who have never tried it... they don't know where to start and how to do it. So now that the class is working on "values" (the lightness and darkness and varying shades of grey in between) I was helping him with it the other night. More specifically he was trying to show folds in fabric. And by george, I think he's getting it. More importantly, he's excited about understanding it.